. >> four votes for congresswoman shirley 119 votes -- [cheers and applause] >> senator george mcgovern had been received the majority votes of this convention is hereby declared the 1972 democratic nominee for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] >> from sea to sea and deception in high places, come home, america. >> this was the most open political convention in american political history. >> i have been to a lot of democratic conventions and witnessed republican ones from afar. it is the only time i saw convention and actually looked like the country. >> is seen to indicate a new dawn, that now politics was not only the preserve of older, white men. >> probably the last and scripted convention in american political history. i don't think anyone wanted to take a chance to get at something so organic and natural and spontaneous. >> many of the opponents called it the convention of hippies, dippies, and jane fonda. joining together of some many causes, if you will, and the democratic party's platform was incredible. we had planks in that platform never seen before. gay-